At 08:37 AM 1/21/2001 -0500, Jerry & Liz Moos wrote:
>You know, this raises another interesting bit of classic bike trivia. When
>Stronglight switched to 22mm extractor thread circa 1982, did they switch
>to 15mm
>bolts also? I have several 22mm Stronglight cranks, but did not buy any
>of them with
>the original BB.
>year.
I vote yes. I removed some Stronglight 99's from a rusty 80's Motobecane, after first digging out the remnants of the plastic dustcovers. I have no recollection of any other trouble, and the sockets I normally use aren't all that thin, so the bolts must have been 14 or 15mm. The extractor threads were the newer, smaller ones.
Jeff Slotkin
TheLocalSpoke
Goose Creek, SC